What solution can be suggested for the problem in the short story "Hills Like White Elephants"?Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"

Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" ends ambiguously
with the young couple's train arriving and with little indication of what decision about
Jig's pregnancy will be made.  Nevertheless, there are some inferences that the reader
can make based upon the dialogue between the man and
Jig. 

Interestingly, since Hemingway does not give the male
partner a name, this action seems to dispose the reader to regarding Jig's feelings more
sympathetically. In addition, since the man does not have to be the one to undergo
the "simple" operation, it is easy for him to suggest the abortion and feel that
everything can be the same if Jig will go through with it.  His remark near the end of
the story as he observes people in the bar, "They were all waiting reasonably for the
train," implies that to him Jig is unreasonable about the simple solution of their
problem of "the only thing that bothers" them.  Clearly, then, the man's perspective is
selfish throughout the dialogue. So, the only solution to his relationship with Jig is
for him to have her full attention and love; a baby will interfere with their carefree
life.

However, it appears fairly evident that Jig is not
really in favor of having an abortion. She asks the man dubiously, "And you think then
we'll be all right and be happy...and things will be like they were and you'll love
me?"  And, as their converstion about the abortion continues, Jig becomes more and more
upset until she finally asks the man seven times, the number representing
completion,

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"Would you please please please plese please
please please stop
talking?"

Key to
understanding the difference between their perspectives is the Jig's statement "We
could have everything" and his reply, "We
can have everything."   While she means that they will be
able to still have their love for each other as well as their love for a baby, the man's
statement implies otherwise.  For, he means that without a child they can maintain
their carefree life of travel, dining and drinking, etc. By his use of the present tense
of can, he implies that they must not change their way of life.  On
the other hand, Jig's use of the conditional tense, could, carries
their life to a possible next stage.

Therefore, there seems
no solution to their dilemma.  Like the symbolic setting that is divided by "two lines
of rail," one fertile ground with fields of grain and trees, the other with white hills
and land that is brown and dry, Jig and the man are divided in their ideas. Thus,
the "shadow of a cloud" that moves across the field of grain seems to foreshadow the
disintegration of their relationship.